Categories of Being

<p>This edited volume is a comprehensive presentation of views on the relations between metaphysics and logic from Aristotle through twentieth century philosophers who contributed to the return of metaphysics in the analytic tradition. The collection combines interest in logic and its history with interest in analytical metaphysics and the history of metaphysical thought. By so doing it adds both to the historical understanding of metaphysical problems and to contemporary research in the field. Throughout the volume essays focus on metaphysica generalis or the systematic study of the most general categories of being. </p>